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Post by RI Richmark on Jan 29, 2014 8:27:18 GMT -5
I'm hoping for a good aul reverse jinx by conceding now.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Jan 29, 2014 11:30:09 GMT -5
CM Punk...
WILDCARD BITCHES~!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2014 23:18:24 GMT -5
CM Punk... WILDCARD BITCHES~! Someone needs to make a GIF of that scene with Punk, Bryan, Vince, Triple H, and Stephanie's faces imposed over it.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Feb 24, 2014 22:15:13 GMT -5
I know the wager is over, but since I said this in the RAW thread, I'll put it here as well for posterity, because this seems to be the thread for actually holding people to their failed predictions.
I don't have the smallest shadow of a doubt that HHH/Bryan at Wrestlemania will end with anything other than a Bryan victory.
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Post by TOO SWEET on Feb 24, 2014 22:18:08 GMT -5
So... yeah, pretty clear Bryan will be facing Hunter. But geez, I seriously doubt anyone who is a Bryan fan can be happy with how this has all played out.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Feb 24, 2014 22:19:01 GMT -5
Yeah, this is some old dumb shit, haha. Still, the wager continues.
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Post by Error on Feb 24, 2014 22:23:06 GMT -5
Triple H is one of my all time favorites. I love me some Daniel Bryan. My interest in WMXXX is deader than (insert dead wrestler here).
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Post by Rican on Feb 24, 2014 22:26:24 GMT -5
It would not shock me in the slightest if Triple H wins at Wrestlemania. At ALL
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 24, 2014 22:35:38 GMT -5
It would not shock me in the slightest if Triple H wins at Wrestlemania. At ALL Yeah, you and 99% of FAN, it seems.
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Post by crowwreak was WRONG on Feb 24, 2014 23:17:30 GMT -5
So, when I'm right, can we find a way to make my "crowwreak was right" flash with rainbows?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 23:17:52 GMT -5
I would seriously rather Bryan be in a meaningless midcard match with Sheamus than face Triple H. I know it'll be a good match, I know Bryan will win, I just... I don't want to see it. I just don't.
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Post by mizerable on Feb 25, 2014 0:00:02 GMT -5
Man...all those people saying I was wrong after WWE totally botched Summerslam by not allowing Bryan to leave with the WWE title, I was told that WWE wasn't stupid enough to go the route by not capitalizing on Bryan's heat.
Man, after 7 long months, people finally are maybe waking up. This isn't an isolated thing, this is habitual work on WWE's part...this is the way they do things, then they are completely baffled when the crowd turns against them or they lose interest and find something else. This has been going on for over 12 years, but at least up until 2005, they found a way to make the fans happy. Nowadays? It's the Cena treatment for everything. Don't like the show? Too bad. Don't like the wrestler? Too bad. Don't like shilling? Too bad. They don't care!! THEY DON'T CARE!!
I gave up on WWE after Summerslam because I knew they didn't care and even if fans showed up to the arena with handfuls of money with the anticipation of seeing Bryan win the title, Vince wouldn't give it to them. He's content. He's content with the audience he has already. He believes that he can reach another audience that will never happen.
This was never a Bryan thing for me. Sure, I like the guy. I think he's one of the best wrestlers I've ever seen. But no matter who it was, if the crowd is into it, you go with it. What are you paying those high quality writers for, if you can't find a way to change the route of things? What, you think the fans are going to be critical if you changed plans now? This isn't going to a restaurant and ordering your food, then changing your mind after you get your food. It's more like seeing the rapids while you're canoeing, and deciding that it's best to tough it out because you're too lazy to find an alternative to get to where you're going.
As far as the wager, I never contended a sense of wanting to be right. Hell, I wish WWE in every way *DID* prove me wrong. I would love nothing more than to have my Monday nights back. But it's not going to happen. I don't care about what happens after Wrestlemania, because it's going to come at a point when WWE has already disappointed an audience who only asked one thing of them, and WWE waited too long to do it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2014 0:04:02 GMT -5
I call a mulligan on this contest as it's just absurd now. When Bryan wins at WM I'll admit that I was wrong but it will have taken so many outside circumstances to do it that it's insane.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 25, 2014 1:45:20 GMT -5
Yeah, there doesn't appear to be any fun in this anymore. It's just going be everyone disappointed with some having different names because they were technically "wrong".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2014 1:57:30 GMT -5
I've given up on watching the product so even if it's a case of D-Bry vs Triple H I'm willing to concede and say I was wrong, genuinely appalled with what the Royal Rumble booking has done to other's hope, a mate telling me fans were openly appalled and not responding to the ending of the main event of Elimination Chamber just confirms I won't be watching 'Mania.
Jerk fans around for long enough and even a small victory is no victory at all.
It's just a domino effect too: why should fans be excited for upcoming guys like Reigns and Cesaro in case their popularity is ignored/played off as a fad and then the same happens to them? I mean, over the years John Cena has main evented they have had chances to move guys up and...destroyed them to put over Cena or teach them some bizarre backstage locker room lesson (see: Wade Barret, uber heel...the hell happened there?!). Of course we can point to Ryback and go "how did they f*** that up" as the latest example, I mean Bryan is still being loved but...eh, when people are tuning out and people tied deeply to the WWE like Mick Foley are giving the big f*** you to the company then what's the point in caring?
It's like the last series of Peep Show, absolute steaming garbage.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2014 2:09:35 GMT -5
There's a reason I chose to join immediately after the cage match where he turned on Bray Wyatt, namely that I thought even then that WWE would screw up the obvious thing and ignore the fans, but I've been hoping to be wrong this whole time. About the title, however - I do not care about Triple H. I just don't. I will change my name for it, but honestly, it's such a hollow victory, because it's not a match I want to see, it's only even happening because Punk is the one person in the company with the balls to tell them enough is enough, and that promo where Triple H outright told Bryan he would never drop down to his level to face him because Bryan isn't a big enough star to be worth his time still happened. They still always meant to just have that be the end of it and to try and force Bryan into being an afterthought, it's just that Punk forced their hand.
Also, I really don't like going to this since it seems like such a stock argument, but the past few months are absolute proof Triple H is a mark for himself. Being pushed heavily could be attributed to Vince, sure. The Outlaws getting a nostalgia run, there could be multiple reasons for that. But you have him positioning himself against the hottest star in the company, his two pet projects feuding for the title (after one of them got to be the one who unified the World and WWE titles) despite the fact that one of them is absolutely despised and no one gives a flying f*** about the other one, the Outlaws stinking up the joint on a nightly basis with no one really knowing how to respond to them because they're beating all of the face teams but it's clean and they're still playing to the crowd doing it, Flair being gainfully employed by the company again despite all of his f***-ups and when something did go wrong with him they fired Ross instead (who I'm really not even that fond of honestly)... It's undeniable. As Triple H's power is growing, he's obviously catering the company entirely to his own desires. And we're going to have to put up with it for at least the next thirty years.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Feb 25, 2014 2:36:35 GMT -5
Heh, it's gonna be a case where those of us who have to change our names (assuming Bryan beats HHH) will have to do so by default, and even the 'winners' of the bet won't feel happy about it.
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Post by Sparkybob on Mar 10, 2014 21:16:01 GMT -5
Well Shit I knew Bryan always had it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2014 21:18:20 GMT -5
inb4 everyone tries to insinuate this was WWE's plan all along even though it blatantly wasn't
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Mar 10, 2014 21:19:03 GMT -5
Two birds, one stone.
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